mediascope - Genre 4

1. about one third of your life is spent sleeping.

2. everyone dreams, evern if you don't remember your dream it doesn't mean you didn't dream.

3. men tend to dream more about other men, while women dream equally about men and women.

4. a lack of dream activity can mean protein deficiency or a personality disorder.

5. people who are giving up smoking have longer and more intense dreams.

6. if you're snoring, you cannot be dreaming.

7. in an average lifetime you would have spent a total of six years dreaming.

8. the word dream comes from teh Middle English word "dreme" meaning "joy" and "music".

9. toddlers don't dream about themselves. They don't appear in their dreams until the age of about three or four.

10. nightmares are common in children. They usually begin around age three and continue up to age seven or eight.

11. back in the Roman Era, significan dreams were sent to the Senate for analysis and interpretation.

12. studies show that our brain waves are more active when we dream than when we are awake.

13. we dream for about one to two hours each night.

14. we have about four to seven dreams a night.

15. around three percent of adults have sleep apnea. This condition is treatable and can lead to tiredness and inefficiency.

16. research has shown that the house is the most common setting for dreams.

17. five minutes after the end of a dream, half of the content is fogotten. after ten minutes, ninety percent is lost.

18. sixty seven percent of americans have experienced deja vu in their dreams.

19. deja vu occurs more often in females than in males.

20. blind people do dream.

21. dreamers who are woken up right after REM sleep are able to recall their dreams better than those who slept all through the night.

22. during REM sleep, males experience erections and females experience increased vaginal blood flow, despite the content of the dream.

23. wet dreams may not necessarily coincide with overtly sexual dream content.